Remove explicite object-inheritance

Author: Flamefire

easybuild/base/generaloption.py

@@ -864,7 +864,7 @@ def get_option_by_long_name(self, name):
         return None
 
 
-class GeneralOption(object):
+class GeneralOption:
     """
     'Used-to-be simple' wrapper class for option parsing
 

easybuild/base/optcomplete.py

@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ class CompleterMissingCallArgument(Exception):
     """Exception to raise when call arg is missing"""
 
 
-class Completer(object):
+class Completer:
     """Base class to derive all other completer classes from.
     It generates an empty completion list
     """
@@ -605,7 +605,7 @@ def autocomplete(parser, arg_completer=None, opt_completer=None, subcmd_complete
     sys.exit(1)
 
 
-class CmdComplete(object):
+class CmdComplete:
 
     """Simple default base class implementation for a subcommand that supports
     command completion.  This class is assuming that there might be a method

easybuild/base/rest.py

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 from easybuild.base import fancylogger
 
 
-class Client(object):
+class Client:
     """An implementation of a REST client"""
     DELETE = 'DELETE'
     GET = 'GET'
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ def get_connection(self, method, url, body, headers):
         return connection
 
 
-class RequestBuilder(object):
+class RequestBuilder:
     '''RequestBuilder(client).path.to.resource.method(...)
         stands for
     RequestBuilder(client).client.method('path/to/resource, ...)
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ def __repr__(self):
         return '%s: %s' % (self.__class__, self.url)
 
 
-class RestClient(object):
+class RestClient:
     """
     A client with a request builder, so you can easily create rest requests
     e.g. to create a github Rest API client just do

easybuild/framework/easyblock.py

@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@
 _log = fancylogger.getLogger('easyblock')
 
 
-class EasyBlock(object):
+class EasyBlock:
     """Generic support for building and installing software, base class for actual easyblocks."""
 
     # static class method for extra easyconfig parameter definitions

easybuild/framework/easyconfig/easyconfig.py

@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ def get_toolchain_hierarchy(parent_toolchain, incl_capabilities=False):
     return toolchain_hierarchy
 
 
-class EasyConfig(object):
+class EasyConfig:
     """
     Class which handles loading, reading, validation of easyconfigs
     """

easybuild/framework/easyconfig/format/format.py

@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ def __init__(self, parent=None, depth=None):
         NestedDict.__init__(self, self, 0)
 
 
-class Squashed(object):
+class Squashed:
     """Class to ease the squashing of OrderedVersionOperators and OrderedToolchainVersionOperators"""
 
     def __init__(self):
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ def final(self):
         return self.result
 
 
-class EBConfigObj(object):
+class EBConfigObj:
     """
     Enhanced ConfigObj, version/toolchain and other easyconfig specific aspects aware
 
@@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ def get_specs_for(self, version=None, tcname=None, tcversion=None):
         return res
 
 
-class EasyConfigFormat(object):
+class EasyConfigFormat:
     """EasyConfigFormat class"""
     VERSION = EasyVersion('0.0')  # dummy EasyVersion instance (shouldn't be None)
     USABLE = False  # disable this class as usable format

easybuild/framework/easyconfig/format/version.py

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ def __hash__(self):
         return hash(tuple(self.version))
 
 
-class VersionOperator(object):
+class VersionOperator:
     """
     VersionOperator class represents a version expression that includes an operator.
     """
@@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ def as_dict(self):
             return None
 
 
-class OrderedVersionOperators(object):
+class OrderedVersionOperators:
     """
     Ordered version operators. The ordering is defined such that one can test from left to right,
     and assume that the first matching version operator is the one that is the best match.

easybuild/framework/easyconfig/licenses.py

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 _log = fancylogger.getLogger('easyconfig.licenses', fname=False)
 
 
-class License(object):
+class License:
     """EasyBuild easyconfig license class
         This is also the default restrictive license
     """

easybuild/framework/easyconfig/parser.py

@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ def fetch_parameters_from_easyconfig(rawtxt, params):
     return param_values
 
 
-class EasyConfigParser(object):
+class EasyConfigParser:
     """Read the easyconfig file, return a parsed config object
         Can contain references to multiple version and toolchain/toolchain versions
     """

easybuild/framework/easystack.py

@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ def check_value(value, context):
         raise EasyBuildError(error_msg % format_info)
 
 
-class EasyStack(object):
+class EasyStack:
     """One class instance per easystack. General options + list of all SoftwareSpecs instances"""
 
     def __init__(self):
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ def get_general_options(self):
         return general_options
 
 
-class SoftwareSpecs(object):
+class SoftwareSpecs:
     """Contains information about every software that should be installed"""
 
     def __init__(self, name, version, versionsuffix, toolchain_version, toolchain_name):
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ def __init__(self, name, version, versionsuffix, toolchain_version, toolchain_na
         self.versionsuffix = versionsuffix
 
 
-class EasyStackParser(object):
+class EasyStackParser:
     """Parser for easystack files (in YAML syntax)."""
 
     @staticmethod